OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 39766

knight-errant

Meanings (ES + gloss)
caballero andante
A knight in a medieval romance who wanders in search of adventure and opportunities to prove his chivalry.
Before Tarzan had returned to the tribe, a certain young bull, not being able to secure a mate from among his own people, had, according to custom, fared forth through the wild jun…
In short, his wits being quite gone, [Don Quixote] hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, a…
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